I see that BullionStar in Singapore, the bullion dealer, has just started accepting Ethereum, Bitcoin Cash and Litecoin as currencies for buying gold and silver. It already had been accepting Bitcoin since 2014.

"BullionStar adds Ethereum, Bitcoin Cash, and Litecoin as Payment Options and Currencies"

https://www.bullionstar.com/blogs/bullionstar/bullionstar-adds-ethereum-bitcoin-cash-litecoin-payment-options-currencies/

maybe I should have put in under the "Press" section. Apologies

"The essence of a decentralised blockchain network is actually explained quite simply in the introduction to the whitepaper of the world’s first implemented blockchain, Bitcoin, i.e. Sataoshi Nakamoto’s now famous Bitcoin whitepaper."

https://www.bullionstar.com/blogs/bullionstar/blockchain-beyond-bitcoin/

he South Korean cryptocurrency regulation boss has been found dead at his Seoul home. Jung Ki-joon, the Head of the Economic Policy Coordination Office for the South Korean Government, was in charge of developing policies to regulate Bitcoin, is believed to have suffered a heart attack whilst he was sleeping. He was found be family members who went to wake him in the morning.

https://cryptodaily.co.uk/2018/02/bitcoin-regulation-boss-dies/

Binance CEO Zhao Changpeng discusses the challenges exchanges face, possible rules and regulations.

Video https://www.bloomberg.com/news/videos/2018-01-11/binance-ceo-says-bitcoin-mining-may-move-to-cheaper-places-video

Research paper on Bitcoin price manipulation, and appearing in the recent issue of the Journal of Monetary Economics the paper describes to what degree the Bitcoin ecosystem is controlled by bad actors.

https://techcrunch.com/2018/01/15/researchers-finds-that-one-person-likely-drove-bitcoin-from-150-to-1000/

These central bankers don't give up

"Any attempt to regulate cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoin must be on a global scale as national or regional rules would be hard to enforce on a virtual, borderless community, a director at Germany’s central bank said on Monday"

From Reuters ....
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-bitcoin-regulations-germany/any-rule-on-bitcoin-must-be-global-germanys-central-bank-says-idUSKBN1F420E?il=0